LETTER II.

To Mrs. SAVILLE, England.

Archangel, 28th March, 17--.

How slowly the time passes here, encompassed as I am by frost and
snow! yet a second step is taken towards my enterprise. I have
hired a vessel, and am
occupied in collecting my sailors; those whom I have already
engaged appear to be men on whom I
can depend, and are certainly possessed of dauntless courage.